Stop overplucking your eyebrows. Period. Thank you. On to the next post.
Alopecia? Trichotillomania? Hypothyroidism? Bless your little hairless supraorbital ridge, and splurge on your brows with your Covergirl pencil stick, or whatever you call that thingy you paint your face with. But for the love of Liz Taylor‘s brows, you who overplucks, show your hair some love, and put your tweezers away!
Elizabeth Taylor—From Le Clown’s unbiased Perfect Eyebrows image library. All Rights Reserved
Le Clown is a man of few words on Fridays, unless you play some Rebecca Black—then watch him sing and dance like an Icelandic pop singer wearing a swan tutu. Enjoy a YAY / NAY eyebrows appreciation in colourful Technicolor.
Pogo the Clown: Nay.
Jen from Sips of Jen and Tonic: Yay.
Divine: magnificent™, but Nay.
The Ringmistress: Yay.
Adam West’s Batman: Nay.
Kelly from Excitement on the Side: Yay.
DISCLAIMER: Remember, everything Le Clown writes is in jest… I have nothing against Batman’s eyebrows.
I have no eyebrows so over plucking is never a problem.
Posted by writerwendyreid | November 2, 2012, 19:40I had to go and check my eyebrows in the mirror as I don’t often give them much thought. I must admit that they’re a little anemic. But it’s not for plucking. I just have to pluck my chin. Have you any thoughts on chin hair, Le Clown?
Posted by Deliberately Delicious | November 2, 2012, 19:41But if I don’t do some serious plucking I will have a ‘stache up over my eyes – maybe that’s appropriate for Movember?
Posted by artsifrtsy | November 2, 2012, 20:38I can’t believe you nayed The Batman.
Posted by Posky | November 2, 2012, 22:27Funny Posky,
It was strategic… I knew it would get you here.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 2, 2012, 22:30Yay! Long live eyebrows!
Posted by Tania | November 3, 2012, 00:14Tania,
Everyone deserves a long a healthy life, no?
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 08:40I’d forgotten about Batman’s cheesy eyebrows! Lol. Whoever is responsible for messing up Batman with that show, he ought to be strung up by his pinky toes.
Posted by legionwriter | November 3, 2012, 01:42Legion,
They did have a funny looking show, but a g-r-e-a-t catwoman with Julie Newmar…
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 08:51I’m so glad my eyebrows make the cut (being like the “Yay”s rather than the “Nay”s). I’m excited for my life to go on now.
Posted by GiggsMcGill Jill | November 3, 2012, 02:03Jill,
I have been meaning to tell you… Giggs McGill, is that your family name? I’m from Montreal, and McGill is one of our ivy league universities… That’s it. That’s my question. Now I can go on with my day.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 08:54Le Clown,
I do wish McGill was a family name, because it’s very cool, and even more so now knowing that it’s a Montreal ivy league University.
It was in fact, a nickname (full being: Giggles McGill Jill).
Hopefully now your day can continue on even more than it was already continuing. I do hate being a time blocker.
Giggs
Posted by GiggsMcGill Jill | November 4, 2012, 16:56My eyebrows are naturally thin. A constant source of annoyance for my friends while making their waxing appointments, and for me who would really like a little more hair on my brow!
Ah well, at least they don’t look like some of those nays.
Posted by jessmittens | November 3, 2012, 07:22Jess,
Sometimes, life is tricky like that, isn’t it? Le Clown is quite handsome, he was born with a beautiful skin complexion, which is also a source of constant annoyance for his friends. I often tell my friends that people turn their heads my way because of my clown make-up, but who am I trying to fool here…
Jess, welcome to A Clown on Fire, and thanks for following me back on Twitter.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 3, 2012, 07:29As a peson who struggles with looking like I have eyebrows I endorse this message. Whenever I see an over plucked brow I want to just say, “So tell me what you were thinking when you decided to mutalate your eyebrows?”
Posted by Michelle Gillies | November 3, 2012, 09:45Michelle,
I was just on your blog saying hello and congratulating you for your Freshly Pressed nod on Canadica! As for plucked hair, we could make really cool bio degradable purses with the murdered hair, no?
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 08:28You had me at purses.
Posted by Michelle Gillies | November 4, 2012, 08:57I have none…I have alopecia. I will get to that in my writing eventually.
Posted by jiltaroo | November 3, 2012, 10:38Jenn,
I didn’t know this. And I am indeed looking forward to reading your post on the topic.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 08:29Well it’s a memoir. Probably will be one of my more difficult posts. The last few have been hard enough. To write these things I really have to re-immerse myself in the moment. It brings back pain.
Posted by jiltaroo | November 4, 2012, 09:05I know you didn’t know….but maybe you thought my eyebrows were horrible and thin. I also know that none of your community would judge a person in such a thing.
Was that a poem?
Jen
Posted by jiltaroo | November 4, 2012, 09:38Jen,
This post was in jest. And as I stated in the first paragraph. I do understand that everyone has a reason, and some are simply physiologic. I do have a preference, the same way I do about voices (I like deep voices), about hair colour (I like dark hair) about height (I like tall women), but it doesn’t the other end of the spectrum is horrible. It’s just different, and there is beauty in everything and everyone.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 09:40Le Clown, it would take a hell of a lot for you to offend me.I know you well enough now to know that you would not mean to hurt or diminish a person with your humor.
…..that was just to piss you off!
……I like red noses!
Posted by jiltaroo | November 4, 2012, 09:44Jen,
Good. It was still important for me to say it out loud.
Have a great and beautiful Sunday, Jen.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 09:46You’re a beautiful man.
Posted by jiltaroo | November 4, 2012, 09:52Eyebrows…. Hmmmm… If one shaves them do they grow back bushier?
This post astonishingly brought to me attention that I don’t notice people’s brow fur. I am quite concerned about this and worry if it in fact may be some deep self-absorbed psychosis that keeps me form noticing the hair of my mates and acquaintances brows.
However, now thanks to the explicit, amazing, all-thinking, master of blogs, tantalizing, tsunami in my pants creating, Le Pitre; all I notice is eyebrows.
I am now obsessed with people’s upper facial hair.
I thank you kind sir, for raising my awareness of my surroundings.
~ alison
Posted by There's a frog on my Sprocket! | November 3, 2012, 16:39Alison,
Welcome to A Clown on Fire… Flattery will get you nowhere, but on Le Clown’s right side, and among his BFF circle. Now that I have made a very thorough study of eyebrows, I walk and stare at people’s ridge, and have to quickly look elsewhere when someone catches me staring…
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 08:18Le Pitre,
Your blog is a complete pleasure. As for being caught staring, then the quick look away, I too have been there. However it is usually for staring at busts or the occasional crotch. (I believe there should be a points system and one should get bonus points everytime they use the word ‘crotch’ in a comment)
BFF! You would be my first, I am a best friend forever virgin… Generally speaking I’m not the best with people. Maybe it’s the whole awkward staring business.
alison
Posted by There's a frog on my Sprocket! | November 4, 2012, 10:32Eyebrows have rights too! I’m glad someone is sticking up for them. As an FYI, I know several people who’ve never plucked their eyebrows, and mine haven’t been done since my sister got married in August 2006.
Posted by faithhopechocolate | November 3, 2012, 16:49Faith,
I say let’s create a Peta for eyebrows. And let’s through red paint on faces that do not respect eyebrow hair. Too much?
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 08:10Le Clown, the red paint might be a touch too far. Much easier to just put the over-pluckers into straight jackets until their eyebrows grow back and they’ve overcome the compulsion to pluck.
Posted by faithhopechocolate | November 6, 2012, 07:52Lots of complaining but no kudos! The most perfect eyebrows ever – Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind.
Posted by ManicMuses | November 4, 2012, 08:26Manic Muses,
In all fairness, there was also a great deal of love, as Le Clown enjoys a healthy dose of balance. As for Vivien Leigh circa GWTW, absolutely! Right there with Vincent Price’s eyebrows.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 4, 2012, 08:38The Ringmistress shines!
Posted by drawandshoot | November 4, 2012, 20:17Karen,
As always, she does.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 10, 2012, 10:39You better not have anything against Batman’s eyebrows!!
Posted by vyvacious | November 6, 2012, 19:37Vyvacious,
I do. I’m so sorry. I like me some very dark and disturbed Batman. Although I like me some Catwoman/Julie Newmar.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 10, 2012, 10:38Oh boy. Dark and disturbed Batman is better than no Batman at all!! And good choice! I loved the 60s Batman series
Posted by vyvacious | November 12, 2012, 16:56Best. Eyebrow. Post. Ever!!!
Posted by The Hook | November 7, 2012, 10:13The Hook,
I will not disagree with you.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 10, 2012, 10:37I love the humorous nature of this post, but find it distasteful to make fun of folks with a medical condition – myself included. You take an eyebrow pencil and draw on some hair or a stash and see how you like that natural look. Clown…..you let me down.
Posted by Julia Kovach | November 10, 2012, 10:23Julia,
I would never make fun of a medical condition, which is why I started my post stating this clearly. My post is about peeps who overpluck, simply. I don’t find humour in medical conditions, may they be physical or mental. I’m adamant about that.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 10, 2012, 10:26“Bless your little hairless supraorbital ridge, and splurge on your brows with your Covergirl pencil stick”???? Just saying…….
Posted by Julia Kovach | November 10, 2012, 10:29Julia,
It is in humour, in a very Le Clown fashion, meant as an understanding of anyone who will use a colour pencil-stick. This is a Le Clown post, most and foremost. It will have a Le Clown tone, which will shock. My apologies if you find this offensive, the intent was a very different one. But it is something that will happen on this blog. I appreciate you voicing out your position, and I appreciate that I can exchange with you about the motives behind this post.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 10, 2012, 10:34I read your email and I thank you. Maybe I’m just a bit pricklier than usual today. I apologize. Please feel free to delete my notes. I would certainly understand. I don’t usually reflect my rough days onto others. Keep on clowning just as you are. And I’ll try to enjoy your talent and uniqueness and keep my big bipolar mouth shut! lol Be well, my friend. xoJulia
Posted by Julia Kovach | November 10, 2012, 10:49Julia,
I will not erase your comment. I am happy you voiced out your opinion, and it is welcome here. Le Clown’s humour will trigger these very valid reactions from some readers, and I am so very honoUred that you felt comfortable to share them with me.
And yes… I’d rather avoid using “controversial” when it comes to Le Clown, but I can see why jokes about “White Baby Jesus” might not be everyone’s cup of tea, for example.
Have a great weekend, Julia.
Le Clown
Posted by Le Clown | November 10, 2012, 10:52